The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America

Xóchitl Bada is an Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Forced Migration Review, Population, Space, and Place, Latino Studies, and Labor Studies Journal. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United States. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas (Palgrave, 2018) and Accountability across Borders (University of Texas Press, 2019). She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2019-2020. Liliana Rivera-Sánchez received a Ph. D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Professor and Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. She is author of 15 books (monographies and edited), 25 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, more than 35 book chapters, in Spanish, English and French languages. Her most recent book is (as Editor): ¿Volver a casa? Migrantes de retorno en América Latina. Debates, tendencias y experiencias divergentes, Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2019.

Preface

A Detailed Panorama
Javier Auyero

Part 1: Introduction

1. On the Sociology of Latin America: Some Key Pieces of the Puzzle
Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Xóchitl Bada

Part 2: Sociology of the State
Coordinator: Viviane Brachet-Márquez

2. States in Latin America": Are They Still Worth Studying? An Introduction
Viviane Brachet-Márquez

3. Historical Construction of the State in Latin America: A Field in Formation
Viviane Brachet-Márquez

4. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Guatemala: The Contention over Changing a Seigneurial Society
Matilde González-Izás

5. Capitalism and the State in Latin America: Economic Power, Social Inequality, and Environmental Depletion
Esteban Torres and Carina Borrastero

6. From Social Insurance to Poverty Relief: Avatars of Social Protection in Latin America
Mónica Uribe Gómez

Part 3: Social Inequalities
Coordinator: Minor Mora-Salas

7. The Sociology of Social Inequality in Latin America
Minor Mora-Salas

8. Differences, Inequalities, and Labor Markets in Latin America: Some Hypotheses
Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz

9. Inequality, Social Mobility, and Racism in Bolivia
Carmen Rosa Rea Campos

10. Patterns of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Among Youth Living in Stigmatized Neighborhoods
Fabiana Espíndola Ferrer

11. Social Violence and Privilege. Strategies of the Upper Middle Class in San Salvador
Irene Lungo Rodríguez

12. Inequality and Social Justice in Latin America: Youth's Perception and Values
Celi Scalon and Pedro Paulo de Oliveira

13. Ideological Inversion and the (De)legitimation of Neoliberalism in Chile
Ismael Puga

14. Privilege Accumulation Among Upper Middle-Class Youth in Mexico
Minor Mora-Salas and Orlandina de Oliveira

Part 4: Sociology of Religion
Coordinator: Olga Odgers-Ortiz

15. From Sociology of Latin American Religions to a Latin American Sociology of Religion
Olga Odgers-Ortiz

16. The Sociology of Religion in Latin America: from Theoretical Dependence to Its Specificity
Roberto Blancarte

17. Religious Diversity, Popular Religions and Multiple Modernities
Cristián Parker Gumucio

18. Four Keys to Understanding Religious Experience in Latin America
Hugo José Suárez

19. Practices of Sacralization: A Theoretical Proposal for a Sociology of (Popular) Religion from Latin America
Eloísa Martín

Part 5: Social Movements and Collective Action
Coordinator: Nicolás M. Somma

20. Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Literature
Nicolás M. Somma

21. Labor Movements in Latin America
Federico M. Rossi

22. Latin American Women's Movements: A Historical Overview
Cora Fernández Anderson

23. Student Movements in Latin America
Germán Bidegain and Marisa von Bülow

24. Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Tensions, Contradictions, Possibilities
Roberta Rice

25. Economic Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America
Paul Almeida and Amalia Pérez Martín

Part 6: Sociology of Migration
Coordinators: Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Eduardo Domenech

26. Sociology of Migration in Latin America: Formation and Development of a Field of Study
Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Eduardo Domenech

27. Migration and Development in Latin America
Alejandro I. Canales

28. Migration, Borders, and Identity in the Latin American Context
Laura Velasco Ortiz

29. Gender and Migration in Latin America
Marina Ariza

30. Migration and Immigrant Organizational Forms in Latin America
Luis Escala Rabadán and Xóchitl Bada

Part 7: Sociology of Gender
Coordinator: Gioconda Herrera

31. The Sociology of Gender in Latin America: from Social Mothers to Sexual Rights
Gioconda Herrera

32. Violence Against Women: Contributions from Latin America
Montserrat Sagot

33. Contributions from the Sociology of Care in Latin America
Karina Batthyány

34. Gender and Work in Contemporary Latin America
Erynn Masi de Casanova

Part 8: Medical Sociology

Coordinator: Roberto Castro

35. Medical Sociology in Latin America
Roberto Castro

36. The Trajectory and Identity of Sociology of Health in Brazil
Everardo Duarte Nunes and Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo

37. A Sociological Approach to the Study of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Argentina
Betina Freidin and Matías Ballesteros

38. Sexual Stratification and Sexual Agency Among Low-Income Girls in an Andean City
Carmen Yon Leau

39. Mexican Women and Decision Making in Health: The Practical Sense
María del Carmen Castro Vásquez and Patricia Aranda Gallegos

Part 9. Sociology of Violence and Insecurity
Coordinator: Arturo Alvarado

40. The Sociology of Crime and Violence in Latin America
Arturo Alvarado

41. Sociology of Fear of Crime in Latin America
Gabriel Kessler and Alejandra Otamendi

42. Homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean
Alberto Concha-Eastman, Edgar Muñoz and Mateus Rennó-Santos

43. Arming the Americas
Katherine Aguirre and Robert Muggah

44. Urban Violence and the Spatial Question: The Built Environmental Correlates of (In)Security in Latin American Cities
Diane E. Davis

45. Border Violence in Latin America: An Expression of Complementary Asymmetries
Fernando Carrión-Mena and Markus Gottsbacher

46. Illicit Drugs and Organized Crime in Latin America: New Scholarship and the Future of Alternative Policies
Angélica Durán-Martínez

47. Forced Displacement and Globalization in Latin America: Causal Factors, Policies, and Perspectives
Pablo Emilio Angarita-Cañas

48. Violent Victimization in Poor Neighborhoods of Bogotá, Lima, and Santiago: Empirical Test of the Social Disorganization and the Collective Efficacy Theories
Liliana Manzano, Alejandra Mohor, and Williams Jiménez